UPM Closing Two Supercalendered Paper Machines

UPM to shut PM 3 at its Rauma mill, Finland and PM 4 at Ettringen mill in Germany by end of April; to reduce 87 employees in Finland and 150 workers in Germany: UPM will permanently close down the paper machine 3 at UPM Rauma mill in Finland and the paper machine 4 at Ettringen mill in Germany by the end of the April 2013. The number of employees is reduced by 87 in UPM Rauma mill and by 150 in UPM Ettringen mill.

PM 3's annual production capacity is 245,000 tonnes, and PM 4's annual capacity is 175,000 tonnes. Both machines produce of SC (supercalendered) paper.

On Jan. 4 of this year, UPM shut down its Stracel paper mill in France. The mill, which employed 250 people, had been producing 270,000 tonnes per year of coated magazine paper grades.
Currently, UPM is trying to sell its Docelles mill (France), which is producing 160,000 tonnes of uncoated woodfree papers annually.

UPM's Rauma mill manufacturers LWC and SC papers with annual capacity of 1,210,000 tonnes. Located in Western Finland the mill employs 670 people. The mill was founded in 1969. 
UPM's Ettringen paper mill manufactures uncoated magazine papers. Its two production lines have a combined annual capacity of 460,000 tonnes. Located in Bavaria, south Germany, the mill employs 391 people. The mill was founded in 1897.